N° 4 > The case for genuine energy cooperation in the Mediterranean

The Barcelona Process, 5+5, Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), Desertec, Medgrid and Apolo: all of these institutional frameworks and industrial projects have had a mandate to put in place cooperation in the Mediterranean, particularly in the domain of energy. 

The Barcelona Process, for example, right from its launch in 1995, promised to regard energy as “the motor of economic development and cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean region”. What is the state of play today, at a time when the wind of geopolitical, economic and social change is blowing in several South Mediterranean countries, with inevitable consequences on the development of the southern shore and future relations with North Mediterranean countries?